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D9641-4
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- 1940-04-16 (Creation)
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Scenes at Commercial Dock. Interior of warehouse filled with crates and material. Matthewson Shipping Company. The cargo had been unloaded from the American freighter Wildwood. The vessel had been ordered to turn around in mid Pacific by F.R. Clark, president of the American Foreign Steamship Co., who feared her loss to a British blockade. The cargo consisted of 7,000 tons of copper, brass and machinery owned by the Russian trading organization Amtorg, who had sent representatives to Tacoma to claim it. Amtorg later sued the freighter Wildwood in a $350,000 libel suit. The freighter was placed under the custody of a deputy marshall. The American Foreign Steamship Co. of New York was forced to post a $250,000 bond in order for the marshall to be removed and to permit the loading of five million feet of lumber bound for the East Coast. (T. Times 4/8/1940, pg. 1; 4/13/1940, pg. 6; 4/18/40, pg. 3)
Shipping--Tacoma--1940-1950; Warehouses--Tacoma--1940-1950;